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"A discipline or part of a discipline": logic on the border of metaphysics and psychology in Avicenna's Kitāb al-Šifāʾ.
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British Journal for the History of Philosophy . Jul2024, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p725-744. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Avicenna's ground-breaking view of logic as both a tool for other sciences and a science in its own right has already attracted scholars' attention and has been studied in several different respects. The present paper aims to address a specific issue entailed by considering logic as a science in its own right: that is, assessing the relation in which logic as a science stands to the other sciences, and particularly to metaphysics and psychology. The inquiry will focus on a fundamental, yet tricky, passage of chapter I.4 of Avicenna's Kitāb al-Madḫal, the opening work of his most comprehensive philosophical summa, the Kitāb al-Šifāʾ (Book of Healing). Due to the obscurity of some of Avicenna's references, chapter I.4 "on the subject-matter of logic" has stimulated numerous attempts at interpretation from the Middle Ages to today. In this paper, I will attempt to provide a new reading of the chapter in light of Avicenna's definition of the epistemological status of science in Burhān II.7. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *METAPHYSICS
*PSYCHOLOGY
*THEORY of knowledge
*ARAB philosophy
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09608788
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- British Journal for the History of Philosophy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 179220630
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2022.2123779